Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
A Good Quote (from 1882!)
I'm prepping for a presentation I'm giving next week on Lean leadership styles and I ran across tihs great quote that John Shook shared...
Lean and Media Companies?
I received an email from Norway, asking a question I couldn't answer, so I'm turning it to the blog readers: European media group based...
Example: 5S and Reducing Waste
www.kansascity.com | 09/10/2007 | To survive and thrive in these days of globalization, manufacturing companies must carve away the fat.Here's a nice news story...
Dare to Wear this Button?
I've written before about the "Ask Me" campaign that runs in many hospitals, usually in context of "ask me if I've washed my hands."...
From Autos to Healthcare
In Shift, Auto Workers Flee to Health-Care Jobs - WSJ.com:This story caught my ear, first, when I heard it on the Wall Street Journal...
Bad Systems: TSA at DFW Terminal A
I'm going to try to tie this into Lean, or so I think. I had the most mind-numbing experience at the Dallas-Fort Worth...
Relying on Memory Leads to Errors
Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...
LeanBlog Podcast #31 — David Meier on ‘Toyota Talent,’ Standardization, and...
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LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker.
In this...
Dell to Focus on Long Term?
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? - New York TimesThe Toyota Way philosophy preaches a focus on the long term business objectives or as...
Updated: Press leaving Toyota for Chrysler
Autoblog.com reportThis is surprising -- Toyota's top U.S. executive, Jim Press, who had been the first American named as a Toyota corporate director, is...
Lean in the USA Today
USA Today - Lantech has success all wrapped upIt's a brief mention, but a positive mention of Lean in the USA Today Money section...
Duct Taping the Dreamliner
Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 ProgramOk, so Boeing isn't using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner...
